History Main / IWasQuiteALooker

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' - Aunt May Parker was [[http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/849923.html cute at sixteen]]. Judging what Uncle Ben looks like in the same pic, he was quite the tall glass of sexy, something that May herself pointed out when she first saw him.

** Depending on how you see it, Biff was also quite the MrFanservice in his youth.

* In the film version of ''Film/BramStokersDracula'', the title villain is meant to be portrayed as such, albeit with a twist since we first see him as elderly and he becomes younger as the story progresses.

** Lorraine in the [[Film/BackToTheFuture first film]], as Marty discovers when he goes back in time. Once the movie is over, her ageing is softened by the effects of Marty's time-machinations.

* In ''VideoGame/RootsOfPacha'', Tetih says this word-for-word in one of her conversations with you. Many people used to dance with her at festivals when she was younger because of her attractiveness.

* Edna Turnblad, in the 2007 film version of ''Film/{{Hairspray}}''. On the Making of DVD extra, the wardrobe designer says that John Travolta wanted to play Edna as someone who was a real "buxom babe" in her day (hence the cinched waists, pencil skirts, and other outfits reminiscent of Sophia Loren and other voluptuous actresses of the period). After she kicks Wilbur out, Edna cries over her wedding picture, which depicts a much younger, thinner Edna.

* ''WebAnimation/HunterTheParenting'': Pyotr the Nosferatu used to be quite the {{Bishounen}} as a human, as we see in a picture in the 4rd audiolog.

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* ''Manga/ToLoveRu''
** Honegawa-sensei getting hit with de-aging alien skunk spray.[[http://toloveru.wikia.com/wiki/Honekawa?file=Honekawa_bachelor.png This]] happens.
** From the same series, Lala's father Gid. Once TallDarkAndHandsome, now an UglyCute and BadassAdorable chibi version of himself after expending a great deal of power.

* In ''Manga/{{Nobunagun}}'', the elderly Commander of Dogoo used to be a very cute girl. In a heartwarming moment, the immortal and ageless St. Germain, who constantly hit on her when she was young, says he still sees her as that cute girl when he ran into her again after she had become old.

* Miss Maria Graceburt from ''Anime/MyOtome''. And she reverts to that youthful look of hers whenever she activates her Otome powers, much to everyone's shock and Maria's annoyance.
-->"How pitiful. I put great effort into aging gracefully only to have to appear in this form again?"

* Emperor Palpatine when he becomes reborn in a younger, fitter clone body in ''Franchise/StarWars: ComicBook/DarkEmpire''.

* ''ComicStrip/NineChickweedLane'': [[http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/7515/agentgran.png Edna O'Malley]], now usually known as "Gran," relays to Juliette the story of how she and Juliette's father met during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. A young Edie Ernst was a USO performer, later OSS agent, and genuine bundle of hotness. She once reminisced about "that thing I had going with General Patton," causing her daughter to comment, "There's so much about the North Africa campaign I just don't want to know."

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13198950/29/Crazy-Trouble-With-Love-Part-8 Alliance of Amazons and Izuku]]'': Recovery Girl is de-aged back to her twenties, revealing she used to be a [[StatuesqueStunner seven-foot-tall blonde bombshell]].
* ''Fanfic/TheFifthAct'': Implied when an adult Cloud is mistaken by his mother to be a relative of his father's [[spoiler: due to his strong resemblance to his biological father, President Shinra.]]

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* Mater from ''Franchise/{{Cars}}'' appears to be a rusty, beaten-up tow truck, but whenever we see him in a flashback, he's always a shiny blue colour!
* ''WesternAnimation/TheTripletsOfBelleville'': The Triplets themselves.

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* "Dreams of the Everyday Housewife" by Glen Campbell.
* Music/NeilSedaka's ''She was the Queen of Nineteen-Sixty Four'' is about a groupie who gets too old to rock and roll.
-->''She didn't get Mick, but she got a kick and a black eye from Bianca...''

* in "Tsuki No Waltz" by Mio Iyasama, the [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshotter_youtube_tsukinowaltz_019.png old man]] reverts back to his youth while being spun on a clock needle, and he looked like [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshotter_youtube_tsukinowaltz_310.png this.]]

* In Noël Coward's ''Bitter Sweet'', we first meet the elderly Marchioness of Shayne in 1929, then {{flashback}} to 1875 when she, as Sarah Millick, eloped to Vienna with her singing teacher, Carl Linden. After an officer who was hitting on her killed Carl in 1880, Sari Linden became world-famous performing the songs he wrote. At last returning to England in 1895, she agreed to marry a Marquess who had been fondly pursuing her across Europe.

* Dr. Daly, the aging vicar in Creator/GilbertAndSullivan's ''Theatre/TheSorcerer''. In fact, not only does he sing a melancholy song about how stunningly attractive he was as a young curate, he still makes one young female character go weak at the knees.

* In the musical ''Out of This World'', Juno has the song "I Sleep Easier Now," a ListSong filled with typical Music/ColePorter {{Double Entendre}}s about what she used to do "in the olden days at 10 P.M." but doesn't anymore.

* Wendy Oldbag of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' claims in the first game that she was a mildly successful film actress in her youth. She also has a tendency to use PuppyDogEyes an awful lot, implying there was a time in her life when that maneuver was actually effective.
** In one (rather strange, even by ''Ace Attorney'' Standards) commissioned side-story involving the ghost of Wendy's Identical Grandmother and said grandmother's lover (very, ''very'' long story) proves that Wendy was right about being attractive.
* ''VisualNovel/MajikoiLoveMeSeriously'' has Reiko, the dorm manager and Gakuto's mom, in a flashback.

* Jeanne Amakawa's younger self is introduced in ''VisualNovel/RoseGunsDays''' Last Season, and unsurprisingly she was this, though she is closer to UnkemptBeauty, with slightly messy hair and a loose top.

* ''Webcomic/HowIKilledYourMaster'' starts off with the apprentice searching for the eponymous evil master's killer, who is the narrator and central hero of the story, who is an old man. Cut later in the story to when he was 10 years old, and then later when he's in his 20s. We also got a look at the Five Dragons when Master Fei unveiled the truth about Wong's father, and apparently Fei had quite a head of hair way back when.
* Elanor of ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'' was one back in the day, so much that a picture of her from her younger days got leaked onto the internet (by her son Ralph, who didn't recognize her at all. His head literally imploded when he found out). Her son-in-law Kevin, though, believes she still is. He did recognize her, after all.
* In ''Webcomic/HannaIsNotABoysName'', Dr. Worth basically [[http://hanna.aftertorque.com/?p=241 resembles a human vulture]] and lives in a shady back-alley clinic. [[AllThereInTheManual A bonus picture]] by [[WordOfGod Tessa]] shows that when he was in his twenties, he looked like [[http://vert-is-ninja.deviantart.com/art/Modern-Middle-Ages-147207409 this]].
* ''Webcomic/LighterThanHeir'': Zeppelin's mother, who used to be a pin-up girl for war propaganda.
* ''Webcomic/MyImpossibleSoulmate'': Redge, who's a balding old man, is described to have had glorious flowing hair in the past.
* ''Webcomic/MyRoommateIsAnElf''. Granny Homfel looks completely different in her [[http://myroommateisanelf.comicdish.com/?pageID=33 restored youth]] than when she was dying of [[http://myroommateisanelf.comicdish.com/?pageID=27 old age]].
* Baba Mouse of ''Webcomic/BreakingCatNews'', shown [[http://www.breakingcatnews.com/comic/a-brief-history-of-mouse-and-wicket/ here]].

* Aunt Despair from WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic. When she first started as a character, Tamara and Rob said she used to be as cute as Tamara before she started smoking and drinking constantly.
* Subverted by a clickbait article where former ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' models from decades past reenacted their cover photos. Only one looked significantly different due to age and weight gain, and sure enough, she was the one used as the image link. All the other models were still stunningly beautiful in their 40's and 50's; some wouldn't have looked out of place in the magazine ''today''.

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** By the time of Saw Gerrera's last ([[AnachronicOrder chronological]]) appearance in ''Film/RogueOne'', he's a complete wreck. He isn't outright ''ugly'', but years of living [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized a squalid, violent lifestyle as a revolutionary]] have definitely left their mark; his hair is a mess, his beard is scraggly and unshaven, he's [[AnArmAndALeg lost both his legs]], has to lug a respirator around all the time, is covered in wrinkles and his BadassBaritone has become a hoarse wheeze. Go back to his chronologically earlier appearances (such as ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsJediFallenOrder Fallen Order]]''), and it's almost hard to believe it's the same guy.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Campione}}'', the ageless witch Lucretia Zola used to date Godou Kusanagi's grandfather. She tells Godou that his grandfather looked like him back when he was young.

* [[AllThereInTheManual Background information]] (as well as ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'') for the [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Fate]] [[LightNovel/FateZero series]] shows that [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/fateuniverse/images/6/6a/Zoken.png/revision/latest?cb=20141106104833 Zouken Matou]] didn't always resemble a festering pile of wrinkles and evil. In fact, he [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110226193122/typemoon/images/2/26/Youngzouken.jpg used to look]] more than a little like Zero!Lancer (read: Diarmuid Ua Duibhne of the Radiant Face).

* ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'': Miss Petunia, the BathingBeauty, used to look beautiful, enough to be the Miss Ghost runner-up from six years before the events of the game. When Luigi [[ShowerOfAwkward encounters her in a bathroom]] where he can see the SexySilhouette of a svelte woman taking a bath behind the curtain, but once he moves it, Miss Petunia is actually a pig-like BrawnHilda. It's implied the silhouette is what she used to look like before she gained weight.

* Mater from ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' appears to be a rusty, beaten-up tow truck, but whenever we see him in a flashback, he's always a shiny blue colour!

* ''Webcomic/MyImpossibleSoulmate'': Redge, who's a balding old man, is described to have had glorious flowing hair in the past.

* On ''Series/LALaw'', Douglas discovers his late father had a mistress who gave birth to his, Douglas's, half-brother. He goes to meet her just to see what she's all about, and CoitusEnsues when she shows him an old stag film she did.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}}'': The episode "Miss National Park" reveals that [[ButchLesbian Connie]] was rather cute and pleasant-looking when she was a child, mostly due to drugs and bulimia from her StageMom. Unfortunately, as soon as puberty hit, she expanded ''rapidly'' (along with her voice deepening) and became the {{Gonk}} she is now.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}}'': The episode "Miss National Park" reveals that [[ButchLesbian Connie]] was rather cute and pleasant-looking when she was a child, mostly due to drugs and bulimia from her StageParents. Unfortunately, as soon as puberty hit, she expanded ''rapidly'' (along with her voice deepening) and became the {{Gonk}} she is now.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool'''s FountainOfYouth episode reveals this to be true for Yzma. Yes, ''[[http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120604025025/disney/images/5/54/Young_Yzma.png that]] [[http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120725063723/disney/images/7/71/Yzma.png Yzma]]'' (She even gets a [[CutSong cut]] VillainSong [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=374xW4zZbZA about it]].) Also, Pacha was a lot more athletic-looking as a teen than he is now. In fact, this was implied in ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove''! It was a plot point in its previous version of ''Kingdom in the Sun'' and the series just recycled that.
** Although this was later Jossed/Inverted in an episode involving Yzma's high school reunion, where it was revealed she was even uglier than she is now!
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', Spinelli discovers a photo that shows that Miss Finster was quite the looker when she and Spinelli's grandmother were entertaining the troops in the Pacific. In the film based on the series, we see flashbacks from the teachers. Miss Finster might have ''looked'' better when she was younger, but she still had [[VocalDissonance the exact same raspy voice.]] Not to mention the fact that Dr. Phillium Benedict ''still'' has the hots for her. Eww!
* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'':
** There was an episode that does this with ''all'' the elderly people (or, technically, [[FunnyAnimal animals]], since it is ''Rocko's Modern Life'' and all) in the vicinity. Rocko and Heffer were on a cruise in TheBermudaTriangle with Heffer's grandpa (among other old people), and this gigantic clock came along and completely switched around everyone's ages -- the youngsters (Rocko and Heffer) were now old geezers and the old people (Grandpa Wolfe, et al.) were all young again. After all, it was the BermudaTriangle, and strange, unexplainable things were bound to occur.
** A couple of episodes feature Ed Bighead like this, in one he was tall, handsome, and muscular and had a buzz cut before he became old, and another features him looking like a green-skinned Lex Luthor before Heffer while working as a paperboy hit him with a newspaper that caused him to fall into a blender destroying his face.
* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'':
** Bill was still a bit homely, but he was a popular, confident athlete with a lush head of hair in HighSchool.
** Cotton Hill was a tall, handsome, powerful soldier in WWII. Then he had his shins shredded to pieces via a machine gun and his feet were attached to his knees, causing to go from 6'4" to 5' in height. By the time he married Tilly and had Hank, he looked like a brown-haired version of his current pruny, decrepit self.
* ''WesternAnimation/ArchiesWeirdMysteries'' has this happen to Miss Grundy in the episode "Twisted Youth" when the adults of Riverdale are reverted to teenagers. She spends most of the episode aggressively pursuing Reggie, [[spoiler:who's about to give in and kiss her when the effect's reversed.]]
* Nerissa and Yan Lin in ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' were very attractive once they reverted to their teenage guardian forms.
* Irwin's grandmother, Tanya, in ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy''. In her old age she looks like [[http://grimadventures.wikia.com/wiki/Tanya/Gallery?file=Vlcsnap-2015-05-11-22h37m15s669.png this]], but when she was younger she looked like [[http://grimadventures.wikia.com/wiki/Tanya/Gallery?file=Vlcsnap-2015-05-11-22h43m19s750.png this]].
* An episode of ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' revealed that the grouchy old waitress used to be a water skiing champion who looked cute in a bikini.
* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140811060559/https://www.superherouniverse.com/superheroes/images/batman/batman-beyond/new/harley-quinn.jpg Harley Quinn]] in the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse. The old lady is Harley as of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker''.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewBatmanAdventures'': "Mean Seasons" has a villain called Calendar Girl, a former model who, after getting "old" (read: [[HollywoodOld thirty years old]], ''tops''), was told she wasn't beautiful enough to hire anymore. After a botched plastic surgery, she now refuses to be seen without a mask covering her face, and goes on a crime spree to take revenge against the industry that cast her aside. [[spoiler:The heartbreaking final moments of the episode have her being unmasked as she screams and begs people not to look... and everyone sees that she's ''beautiful''. The botched surgery was just a rumor; the reason she wears a mask all the time is because she's developed Body Dysmorphic Disorder, and fully believes she's now old and unbearably ugly. Batman and Batgirl [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds feel genuinely sorry for her]] when they realize this.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'':
** Jerry's mom, who in her younger days resembled an old-school [[Film/JamesBond Bond]] Girl.
** Jerry himself as well. When he gets hit with a ray that makes him twenty years younger, two separate women on two separate occasions tell him that he looks amazing, suggesting that at the very least, he's seen as attractive in-universe. It's amazing what a full head of hair and fewer wrinkles will do for you.
* Both Griffin and Faragonda of ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' were quite handsome in their youth. Bodywise, they still are.
* Granny, of WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes fame, is shown to have been a [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110708155435/looneytunesshow/images/thumb/c/c9/Snapshot20110708011211.png/743px-Snapshot20110708011211.png very sexy]] ActionGirl, whom Daffy initially mistook for her ''granddaughter'', back in World War II in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow''. Also in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SylvesterAndTweetyMysteries''. Keeping that cat from eating that bird all the time must have really taken its toll on her.
* Simon Petrikov was this, at least by the art style's standards, in ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' before he became [[spoiler: the Ice King]].
* ''WesternAnimation/SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo'': Captain Shuggazoom, before he fell victim to the RipVanWinkle effect.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** Granny Smith was [[http://th00.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2012/029/0/b/young_granny_smith_by_joeyh3-d4o03d5.png very]] [[http://media.pinkiedb.com/photos/Granny%20Smith/Granny%20Smith%20004.jpg pretty]] back in her day.
** Mistmane was once considered the [[WorldsMostBeautifulWoman most beautiful Unicorn in the land]], but she one day had to use a spell that drained her and turned her into a crone.

* Similarly, this happened to Mrs. Claus in ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents''. Compare her appearances in "[[https://fairlyoddparents.fandom.com/wiki/File:ChristmasEveryday-PartTwo00354.jpg Christmas Everyday!]]" and "[[https://fairlyoddparents.fandom.com/wiki/File:MerryWishmas366a.jpg Merry Wishmas]]".

* Grunkle Stan from ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' might be a crotchety old scam artist, but he was a pretty good looking guy [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_s1e17_stan_and_carla_dancin2_6100.png back in the day]]. [[spoiler: His twin brother didn't look so bad either. Although his twin brother is still very attractive, even in his somewhat older years.]].
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
** Greg, Steven's dad is currently a pudgy, balding man with a scruffy beard, but "Story for Steven" shows that he had almost literal rock-star good looks when he was younger.
** His bandmate Vidalia was a slim attractive woman in her younger days, in the present she's a little wrinkled and unkempt.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'' gives us the Brown family's morbidly obese neighbor Kendra. However, in her youth, she was a svelte, gorgeous movie starlet with a string of rich husbands and lovers. Though for some odd reason, she rode around on her signature electric scooter even back then, despite obviously being able to walk with no problem.
** There's also Donna. Who with a heavy dose of beauty enhancements, hides the fact that she aged ''[[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/cleveland/images/9/98/Baredonna.png/revision/latest?cb=20111205034813 badly]]'' Invoked in one episode where the family attends the San Diego Comic-Con, and it's revealed that Donna once starred in a Blaxploitation movie called "Hot-Coco Bang-Bang". Rollo is visibly disturbed just how badly his mother has aged since the movie was made.
** Cleveland himself hasn't changed too much ''visually'', he's even had his moustache since high school, but he was portrayed as much more athletic as a teenager (the school baseball team even retired his number), and more suave and confident in college.

* ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'':
** [=BoJack's=] mother Beatrice was beautiful in her youth as a debutante, and she’s bitter about how she looks now, which she uses to guilt her son due to believing having him "ruined her". "You know, I was ''beautiful'' before I got pregnant".
** His father Butterscotch was also pretty rugged when he first met Beatrice, but by middle age he’s balding with wrinkles and a gut.
** [=BoJack=] himself was pretty good looking in his Horsin' Around days, but in the years after the show’s cancellation he's developed wrinkles and a pot belly. Season 6 reveals that his mane has long-since gone grey, which he has been hiding for years with black dye. After reuniting with his old Horsin' Around makeup artist, she convinces him to wash out the dye, and he remains grey-haired for the rest of the shows run.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'', Doug is volunteering at a local nursing home. He's paired up with an initially aloof woman named Mrs. Whackhammer. As the two bond by the end of the episode, she begins showing him old photos. One that catches his attention is a photo of her when she was about his age. She bears more than a striking resemblance to Patti.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'', while trying to find out about Mrs. Croaker’s past, Anne, Polly and Sprig find a photo of her as an attractive young frog-woman. After Sprig runs off to find the mystery man in another photo, Anne and Polly elect to [[DistractedByTheSexy continue looking at “hot Croaker”]].

** King Robert Baratheon was renowned as a tall, muscular, broad-shouldered, bearded, long-haired, handsome heroic figure who captured the hearts of many young women. However by the time we meet him in the present he has few of these traits left, his ennui and depression being such that drinking, feasting, and wenching is pretty much all he does in lieu of taking care of himself, resulting in his descent into a fat old drunk. His bastard son Gendry [[StrongFamilyResemblance resembles Robert as a youth]], which causes many of Robert's old acquaintances to double-take when they meet him.

*** Cersei herself is getting there. While still quite fetching, she notes during [[spoiler:her naked shame walk through King's Landing]] that her belly is covered in stretch marks from having 3 children, and the impact of nursing the 3 has made her once bountiful bosom start to droop.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': At 69 years old, Daniel Molloy is a sickly, wrinkly, GrumpyOldMan who's slowly dying of Parkinson's disease. However, he was a PrettyBoy when he was 20 years old, and he was gorgeous enough that Louis de Pointe du Lac instantly noticed him when Daniel walked into Polynesian Mary's; Louis then swiftly began hitting on him once Daniel sat down at the bar.